You don't have to be stoned to watch Mr. Nice, but it might help to be in the same state of mind as its real-life anti-hero, drug kingpin Howard Marks.
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Village Voice
Village Voice
Though told here with appealing drollness, Marks's story makes an odd vessel for the filmmakers' casually advanced legalization arguments, what with its mischief making on the grandest scale possible.
An affable throwback to those guilt-free days when hippie drug dealers radiated the glamorous aura of avant-garde heroes risking prison to spread the doctrine of liberation through cannabis.
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New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
So what we're left with is a sort of contact high, drifting gently over to our seats in the back row.
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Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
Writer-director Bernard Rose effectively conjoures an atompshere of poetic stoned-1960s British rebellion, a feeling of woozy, intoxicating possibility that will not-so-eventually be squashed.